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Prepare your system for Windows 8.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 Release Preview on May 31, 2012. Windows 8 is new version of Microsoft Windows for use on PC including desktops, laptops and tablets. Release date for Windows 8 is set for October 2012. Minimum System Requirement for Windows 8 According to Microsoft the minimum system requirements for Windows 8 is same as Windows 7.

For x86(32-bit) Architecture

1GHz processor.
1GB of RAM.
16GB of Hard Disk space.
DirectX 9 supported graphics device.

For x86-64(64-bit) Architecture

1GHz processor.
2GB of RAM.
20GB of Hard Disk space.
DirectX 9 supported graphics device.

For metro applications screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher required.

How to get Windows 8 Release Preview

You can download Windows 8 Release Preview free ISO IMAGE from Microsoft website.
You can install Windows 8 Release Preview parallel to your exiting copy of Windows OS using Dual Boot or on Virtual Machine or on your Mac (iMac or Macbook) using Boot Camp software.

Check your software programs compatibility with Windows 8.

Before installing Windows 8 run this setup utility it will show a list of all software programs and hardware drivers that are compatible with Windows 8.
Also, you can visit this page to see a list of all known software and hardware devices that are compatible with Windows 8.

Google Gravity - I am Feeling Lucky

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:11:00 +0000

We all know about google doodles. But there are certain interest things that takes google to a new plateform. Google gravity is one of them.

You can enjoy google gravity effect in 2 simple steps.

Step 1: go to Google home page and enter google gravity
Step 2: Click on I'm Feeling Lucky.

you can view live demo in below.

Thats it..

How to trace sender IP address in Gmail?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:55:00 +0000

Every day billions of users use email for communication purpose. You might be receiving email from unknown people in your inbox. But in many times you may like to know sender's physical location.
Identity is also big issue in some type of business. You can easily trace the IP address of that email user and then physical location. Just follow the below steps.

Step 1: Login in your Gmail account, open the email you want to trace. On right side, click on reply button you will find something like below image.

Step 2: Click on Show original, a new widows/tab will be open with some text (called header file) like below image copy all text (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C).

Step 3: Go to website link IP2Location paste (Ctrl+V) all your texts in text field as shown below. Now click on look up button, a table will be generate that show all info of sender.

Similarly you can find header file from other email provider like

Windows Live Hotmail
>> Open a particular email in Windows Live Hotmail.
>> Click the down arrow next to Reply in the message's header area near the sender and subject.
>> Select View message source from the menu.

Yahoo!

>> Open a particular email in Yahoo!.
>> Go to Setting of that email and select View Full Headers.

Follow Step 2,3 for same as above.

How to save any document as .pdf format?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000

There are many situation comes where you want your document in .pdf format like

Saving a webpage.
.doc to pdf
Create new .pdf form MS Word or other document editor like Open Office.

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, Notepad, Mozilla or any other Windows application.
It is free, yes you can download it from below link. Download PDFCreator from here.

Verify the Installation.

First install it in default setting (if restart is required then restart your system).
Now open any document editor or browser like Notpad, Wordpad, IE, Mozilla etc. which have ability to print document. Below picture show example with notepad.

In print dialog box you will see PDFCreator as a printer, it means PDFCreator has installed correctly.

How to save webpage as PDF?

First open any website page you want to save as .pdf
In Mozilla Firefox go to menu click Print.

Select PDFCreator as printer and click OK.

New dialog box will be appear click on Save button that's it.

Locate the position of that document and open it in Adobe Reader or any tool that can open .pdf file.

How to create pdf file from any document editor?

From above topic you would got some idea how to save a page as PDF.
To create a pdf file

First create a document in any document editor.
Print the document and select PDFCreator as a printer save it as .pdf.

Top 5 Middle level gaming PC graphics card Rs. 8000-12000 ( $130-200).

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:44:00 +0000

In this article, you’ll find detailed comparison of best middle level gaming graphics card, it doesn’t matter whether you are a gamer or work in the graphics design/video rendering fields, and the basic video chip-set present in your PC isn’t good enough.
There are lots of graphics card available in market, some of best entry level GPU are detailed in this article. These GPU are able to play latest games under normal setting, if you want more detail and highest setting then take 2 of them in crossfire or sli.

1. Gigabyte NVIDIA GV-550Ti

Key Features of Gigabyte NVIDIA GV-N550D5-1GI 1 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

900 MHz GPU Clock Speed
PCI-E 2.0 Bus Standard
1 GB GDDR5 Memory
NVIDIA 3D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
400 W Power Supply Required
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 TiCuda cores 192
Memory Clock 4200MHz
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
Price range Rs. 7500-8000 ( $130-150)

2. GIGABYTE Ultra Durable VGA Series Radeon HD 6850 1GB

Key Features of GIGABYTE Ultra Durable VGA Series Radeon HD 6850 1GB Graphics Card

820 MHz GPU Clock Speed
PCI-E 2.1 Bus Standard
Shader Version 5.0
1 GB DDR3 Memory
AMD 3D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
Stream Processors 960
Memory Clock 1050MHz (4.2Gbps)
OpenGL 4.1DirectX 11
Price range Rs. 8000-9000 ( $150-170)

3. HIS AMD H777F1G2M 1 GB GDDR5

Key Features of HIS AMD H777F1G2M 1 GB GDDR5 Graphic Card

1000 MHz GPU Clock Speed
PCI Express 3.0 x16
Shader Version 5.0
1 GB GDDR5 Memory
Stream Processors 640
Memory 1375MHz (5.5Gbps)
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.23D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
450 W Power Supply Required
Price range Rs. 8000-9000 ( $135-150)

4. Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6870

Key Features of Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6870 1 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

900 MHz GPU Clock Speed
PCI Express 2.0 Bus Standard
Shader Version 5.0Stream Processors 1120
Memory 1050MHz (4.2Gbps)
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
1 GB GDDR5 Memory
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
500 W Power Supply Required
AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6870
Price range Rs. 10000-11000 ( $160-200)

5. Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

Key Features of Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

810 MHz GPU Clock Speed
336 CUDA Cores
Memory Clock 4008MHz
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
PCI-E 2.0 Bus Standard
Shader Version 5.0
1 GB DDR3 Memory
NVidia 3D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
Price range Rs. 10000-12000 ( $160-240)

Top 5 Entry level PC graphics card below Rs. 5000 ( $99).

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:56:00 +0000

In this article, you’ll find detailed comparison of best entry level graphics card, it doesn’t matter whether you are a gamer or work in the graphics design/video rendering fields, and the basic video chip-set present in your PC isn’t good enough.

There are lots of graphics card available in market, some of best entry level GPU are detailed in this article. These are not so strong GPU but these are faster than that chip present in your CPU.

1. XFX NVIDIA GT 520 2 GB DDR3

Key Features of XFX NVIDIA GT 520 2 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

810 MHz GPU Clock Speed
Shader Clock: 1620MHz
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
1 x HDMI
PCI-E 2.0 Bus Standard
CUDA Cores: 48
Shader Version 5.0
2 GB DDR3 Memory
3D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
450 W Power Supply Required
Price range Rs. 3200-3500 ( $40-55)

2. Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 1 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

Key Features of Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6570 1 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

650 MHz GPU Clock Speed
480 Stream Processors
1600MHz Effective Memory Clock
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
PCI-E 2.1 Bus Standard
Shader Version 5.0
1 GB DDR3 Memory
AMD 3D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
Price range Rs. 3800-4000 ( $65-70)

3. MSI NVIDIA N440GT MD1GD3 /LP 1 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

Key Features of MSI NVIDIA N440GT MD1GD3 /LP 1 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

810 MHz GPU Clock Speed
96 CUDA core
1600MHz Effective Memory Clock
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.0
PCI-E 2.0 x16 Bus Standard
1 GB DDR3 Memory
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
Price range Rs. 4000-4300 ( $65-75)

4. Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5670

Key Features of Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5670 1 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

775 MHz GPU Clock Speed
400 Stream Processors
1000MHz Effective Memory Clock
DirectX 11
OpenGL 3.2
PCI Express 2.0 Bus Standard
Shader Version 5.0
1 GB GDDR5 Memory
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
400 W Power Supply Required
AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5670
Price range Rs 4000-4500( $70-89)

5. Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6670

Key Features of Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6670 1 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

800 MHz GPU Clock Speed
480 Stream Processors
1330MHz Effective Memory Clock
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
PCI-E 2.1 Bus Standard
Shader Version 5.0
1 GB DDR3 Memory
AMD 3D Vision Support
2560 x 1600 Maximum Digital Resolution
Price range Rs. 4800-5500 ( $70-90)

Top 10 Addon of Mozilla Firefox for Web Developers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Mozilla Firefox is on of the best browser in web designing world. Also there are some people who like Google chrome. But no one can defeat Firefox because of its performance, feature and most striking is the add-on. There are large numbers of programmer who provides additional features for Firefox through add-on including Mozilla itself.
For example you can easily view code and edit your webpage in firebug. Find compatibility with IE without opening IE using IE tab. In this article you will find 10 very useful add-on for Mozilla which can increase the productivity of web developers.

1. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

2. IE Tab V2

Just like the classic IE Tab, this updated version of IE Tab allows you to use IE to display web pages in a tab within Firefox. This updated version includes support for Firefox 3.6 and will continue to be updated with new features and enhancements.

3. Font Finder

FontFinder is created for designers, developers and typographers. It allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts.

4. ColorZilla

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. The powerful CSS gradient generator allows quick and easy creation of beautiful gradients.

5. YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset.

6. Php Developer toolbar

A Tool Bar developed for PHP programmers. Allows you to search in multiple websites, access communities of developers and projects.
With shortcuts you can quickly see function descriptions or search into official websites. It also provides you links to many interesting tools, all made in PHP or for PHP, and access to PHP User Groups all around the world.You can also generate classes and HTML forms easily, with the native PHP Generator Tool, added to this add-on.

7. Cookie Importer

Imports cookies from a text file, that has the Netscape standard format as used by IE and others. Very useful in combination with the Cookie Exporter add-on.

8. Web Developer

The Web Developer toolbar is a must-have for web developers (arguably better than Firebug).
One of the features is showing all CSS / JavaScript (inline and external!) of the current page. Each slice can be collapsed, so that you don't have to scroll through a big wall of text before finding the desired line of code. Unfortunately, the NoScript extension disables this feature.

9. Illuminations for Developers for Firebug

A set of tools to help you develop web applications by investing Firebug with the knowledge of the JS framework you are working with. Supports ExtJS and Sencha Touch, with beta-level support for Dojo Toolkit, SproutCore, qooxdoo, YUI, Google Closure Library, and jQuery UI.

10. Scroll Up Folder

Goes up a folder of a website. Usage: place mouse over urlbar, scroll wheel up or down. Middle click bar to go. If you prefer use your keyboard, go to urlbar (CTRL+L shortcut or click onto) then press ALT. A window will display available urls. Press UP or DOWN to navigate then valid with ALT. Note: you can still type your url.

How to install a language pack in WINDOWS 7.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:01:00 +0000

You can install multiple regional language packs in windows 7. The only thing you have to do is just download language pack for that language and configure it.

In following example
I will tell you "How to install Hindi language as default language in windows 7".

Step 1: open control panel Start>Control Panel

Step 2: In Control Panel switch icons “View by: Large Icon” and click on "Region and Language".

Step 3: Select “Keyboards and Languages” tab, click on “Install/uninstalled languages..”

Step 4: A new windows will be open which have two options

Install display language
Uninstalled display language (this one will uninstalled any languages packs that is already installed.)

Step 5: Now go to this link Download language packs.

Download any language pack. In my case I have download Hindi language pack.Language pack has .mlc extension.

Step 6: See Step 4 and Click on Install display Languages.
Now browse the location of language pack file and select OK.

Now select check-box and click Next Button.

After completing the installation select installation language as your default system language, restart your computer. That’s it…

Note: This method will work for all version of WINDOWS 7 and Vista.